Fall Harvest Quick Bread Food

FALL HARVEST QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat your oven to 375 deg. F. (Note: I set it higher because when you open the oven to put the loaf pans in, the oven looses heat and this will get the oven temp back to 350 when you close the oven door.)
• 2. Core and peel the apples and dice. Peel the pears, cut in half, scoop out the seeds and dice.
• 3. Add the pears and the remaining ingredients, except for the lemon zest, and cook for an additional 3 to 4 minutes. Lower the heat to medium low, stir in the lemon juice and keep the mixture warm.
• 4. Add the first 6 quick bread ingredients to a large mixing bowl and whisk together.
• 5. In a second bowl cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. You can use an electric mixer or good, old fashioned elbow grease. Mix in the eggs until smooth, followed by the rum, and yogurt.
• 6. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine thoroughly, but don't over mix. A few lumps are good. Fold in the apple/pear mixture.
• 7. In a small separate bowl, toss the walnuts and cherries in the tablespoon of flour and then add to the other ingredients and combine.
• 8. In a small separate bowl, toss the walnuts and cherries in the tablespoon of flour and then add to the other ingredients and combine.
• 9. Smash up the bars and mix together with the brown sugar and melted butter. Sprinkle over the top of the loaves.
• 10. Put the loaf pans into the oven, lower the heat to 350 deg. and bake for 55 to 60 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. When done, remove from the oven, cool in the pans for 20 to 30 minutes, remove from the pans and continue cooling on a metal cooling rack. Slice and serve warm with butter or topped with ice cream for an awesome dessert.

FALL HARVEST BREAD FOR THE ABM

Steps:

• Add ingredients to bread pan in order suggested by manufacturer.
• Bake on regular cycle.
• This will also work on rapid bake cycles.

GARDEN HARVEST QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
• Combine flours and next five ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl until dry ingredients are well blended.
• In a separate small bowl whisk together canola oil, buttermilk and eggs. (Kitchen tip: sour milk can substitute for buttermilk. Milk can be soured by adding a small dash of vinegar to a bit less than 1/4 milk. Let milk sour for a few minutes before mixing into wet ingredients.).
• Add wet mixture to dry mixture, stirring until moist. Fold in grated apple, zucchini and carrots and walnuts, mixing until evenly distributed throughout batter.
• Pour batter into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack.

FALL HARVEST APPLE-SPIKED PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• To prepare pumpkin: First of all, use a smaller variety of pumpkin (about the size of a bag of popped popcorn). The lighter the skin, the sweeter the taste. Cut the pumpkin in half and scoop out the seeds and pulp. Save the seeds for drying or roasting (trust me.) Put both halves cut side down on a foil lined baking sheet, loosely cover them with foil, and pop them in the oven for about an hour at 375. When they're done, scoop the flesh from the skin with a spoon and mush up the yummy pumpkin goodness. It should keep in a refrigetator for about a week or so. If you've decided to just go with canned pumpkin: Open the can.
• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and ready a 9x5 inch loaf pan (cooking spray or oil work just fine.)
• In one bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking soda, salt, allspice, and cinnamon.
• In another bowl, combine the brown sugar, pumpkin, egg, egg white, and apple sauce until the mixture looks like bright orange mush.
• Stir the dry stuff into the wet stuff just until you don't see dry stuff anymore.
• Fold in the chopped apples. At this point, you can also add any solid ingredients (nuts, berries, the like) that you think would taste good inside of a loaf of pumpkin bread. Pour the batter into your loaf pan and sprinkle a few pumpkin seeds on top.
• Bake in the middle oven position at 350 degrees for about an hour, turning once or twice throughout the process. It will look and smell done - just check it with a toothpick. As a precautionary measure, I recommend putting a foil-lined baking sheet on the rack below the bread so it doesn't get so much direct heat from the bottom heating element.
• When you decide that the baking process has completed, cool the bread for about 10 minutes to let the anxiety build. Flip the loaf out of the pan and let it cool a bit more to build up some extra anxiety.
• Enjoy your supprisingly easy to make pumpkin bread and give yourself a hug for a job well done.